Chapter Seventeen How much time passed between me losing consciousness and me awakening, I couldn’t say. All I knew was that I woke up what felt like one second after I hit my head against the floor, only this time I was lying down flat on my back on a slab of concrete. I tried to sit up, but thick steel clamps held me down, clamps so thick and strong that even with my super strength, I doubted I could break them very easily or quickly. My ears started hurting the second I woke up, making me groan in pain, but I couldn’t rub my ears to make them feel better thanks to these damn clamps. My head felt dizzy, like I had just gotten off a roller coaster. But when I opened my eyes, I saw that I was lying directly underneath a whole bunch of really bright lights that forced me to squint. That

